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One of these days I decided to give a try to an opensource project which happens to run only on Linux. This sounds like nothing special unless your development machine happens to be Windows 7 and you don’t want to bother with downloading and maintaining virtual images. True, Vagrant would be a good option but getting it (and VirtualBox) to work with my enterprise-grade proxy access is a real PITA. Add to that the less-than-maintained vagrant-proxyconf plugin and the zillions of tools every one with own config files for proxies (gradle, git, maven, you-name-it)… Not at least, a local virtual machine is local and we’re heading to a cloud-based society right? So, AWS to go! Continue reading →